I'm looking at a Walther LGV for sale on the internet and wondered if someone could provide me with some basic information. Is is a spring piston rifle? If so, does it have some kind of mechanism for recoilesss operation?
The LGV is not recoilless, it is a "plain" barrel-cocking, spring-piston mechanism. That being said, it is widely regarded as the last and best design of the first-generation, pre-recoilless target rifles.
It is quite heavy, and like all target guns rather low-powered, which keeps recoil to the negligible level. The trigger and sights are superb. Fit and finish are not bettered by any postwar airgun, in my opinion. And it has a manual barrel lock for the last degree of rigid barrel-to-receiver alignment consistency.
The first-generation LGV was made with both a beautifully-proportioned Olympia-style stock, and with a Tyrolean stock as well. The later LGV Spezial is usually seen with a functional but rather un-aesthetic square stock.